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![]() A popular and a great fine motor activity! Hammering golf tees into a pumpkin. ![]() Thread orange beads onto a green pipe cleaner and you have a cute pumpkin. ![]() A cutting activity. Cut strips of paper and glue onto shape to make candy corn. ![]() I attached painters tape to the wall to make a spiders web. The children threw cotton balls (spiders) and tried to get them to stick to the web.
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![]() Being October we spent alot of time exploring pumpkins. One day we measured our pumpkins using cubes. We determined the smallest and the biggest. We then determined by how much. Then we searched in the classroom for items that were bigger and smaller than our largest pumpkin. The cubes were left out during center time for the class to explore...and this is what they did! These boys decided to make patterns. ![]() The patterns were then placed together to see if they would be longer than a child. It was so much fun to see all the wonderful ideas they come up with in using these cubes! ![]() Every month we look at a new poem or rhyme on our chart board. It is a great opportunity to examine print. With this poem we noticed quickly how many times the word pumpkin was used. After discussing the letter P and what it looks like, each child was invited to come and cover up the word "pumpkin" with a blank sheet. 10 times we found our mystery word! We have been having fun making rhyming words with our names so we decided to try to make rhyming words with the word pumpkin. After presenting a letter and its sound we then would read out our poem using our "new" word. It made for a lot of giggles! ![]() This was the Halloween sensory box. The first time the class played with this I realized that when you move the items, the small green beads, actually help roll the objects around, almost as if on their own! It was a very spooky effect...perfect for Halloween! I also used this as an "eye-spy" box. I have foam numbers that I would give a child and ask them to find me the corresponding amount of, let's say...bones. ![]() Mr Pumpkin head! I drilled some holes in the pumpkins and then we made interesting pumpkin people! ![]() I am very big on fine motor development...and what a better way than holding onto little tees and hammering! Golf tees, pumpkins and a hammer and those muscles gets a great workout! A very popular activity. ![]() Our pumpkin exploring would not be complete with out discovering what is inside. We talked about what we "thought" it would feel, smell and look like inside. Everyone was most surprised at the smell. They were surprised that it was not a more "pleasant" smell, since "pumpkin pie smells soooo good!" ![]() Pass the pumpkin. This game is similar to hot potato. When the music stopped the person holding the pumpkin had to find their name or their friend's name. On the other pumpkin they had to find a certain letter and try and make it's sound. For a reward there was candy corn for everyone!! It was Halloween, of course! |
Miss DawnI teach preschool in my home to 3 and 4 year olds. It's a wonderful adventure filled with lots of laughter and learning. Archives
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